A morning with George Cunningham
Alan Titchall visits Matamata to talk with industry veteran George Cunningham who has clocked up over six decades in the extraction industry. QUARRY INDUSTRY veteran...
Category : Quarrying
Dust ban madness
The Aggregate and Quarry Association has fired a public relations salvo at Environment Canterbury’s (ECAN) proposal to bring in a ‘no tolerance’ ban on any...
On-site quarry for Waikato Expressway project
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s April-May issue. The Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway project will soon have its own quarry providing rock to...
Rocktec's quarry plant innovations
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s April-May issue. Four years ago we were invited to Rocktec’s engineering workshops in Matamata to see the early design...
Track ballast: A train passes over it
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s April-May issue. PETER OWENS looks at Southern Aggregates’ hard rock quarry at Greenhills near Bluff, which produces new Ballast...
Thank you dead diatoms
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s February- March issue. ALAN TITCHALL reviews the historic beginnings of the silica extraction industry in the Rotorua district on...
Alice and the Tikitere Quarry
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s February-March issue. ALAN TITCHALL tours a quarry on the Taupo Volcanic Plateau that supplies Golden Bay Cement with one...
A day in Stevies’ Drury Pit
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s December-January issue. This panorama photograph, taken November 10 2016 from the eastern edge of Stevenson Resources’ remodelled Drury quarry...
Miners Road Quarry: A state-of-the-art quarry
This article first appeared in Q&M‘s December-January issue. RICHARD SILCOCK takes a look at a quarry that, after being mothballed for a number of years,...
Saddle Hill stays defiant
The country’s most controversial quarry is appealing a drawn out court decision that restricts the quarry’s operation. Saddle Hill is a quarry working on top...